Thread:FreddyOfAxes/@comment-30866120-20170805214413/@comment-30866120-20170805225157

In Japanese, we have female and male referencing words, too. But not like "der" or "die" in German, but more like this:

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Click tabbers for a short Japanese lesson. XD


 * -|gods and goddesses=

Let's take god for example. In English you have goddess for female gods, in Japanese it's Shin (神) for god and Megami (女神) for goddess, but they use the same Kanji with only one added for Megami. Funny how adding the woman Kanji (女) to a god makes him a goddess. XD

It's simple with the writing, but the pronounciation changes completely. ^^'

Also when people speak in Japanese, we mostly refer to others by their name instead of going "he", "she", "it".
 * -|Chiaki's cake=

So, if I said: "Chiaki ate some cake. She said, it was tasty." it becomes "Chiaki ate some cake. Chiaki said, the cake was tasty."

And if I don't know her personally or adress her respecfully, it becomes "Enno (Chiaki) ate some cake. Enno (Chiaki) said, the cake was tasty."

This one also causes gender confusion sometimes, when people translate anime and manga, I think. Cause, they probably only see the text and not the characters and never listened to their original voices or read the author notes. ^^'

Also, Chiaki is in, cause the general preference in Japanese culture would tend towards "Enno", eventhough "Enno Chiaki" is obviously correct, too.

Whoa, so much text. XD

Sorry, for boring ya like that. ^^'

Vajuradate
Oi? Mao Zedong? o.O

I heard of that guy, too. Some high ranking dude, dunno why he appeared in the TV box so many times, though. XD

Now I'm feelin' dumb. ^^'